WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 2007

owner, tenant, renter or lessee of said riparian rights do not
avail themselves of the privilege of locating the position
where they desire to set their nets or haul seine each year
within twenty days after receiving notice hereinafter pro-
vided from any other person who may desire to locate their
nets or fishery an front of said riparian owner's property,
then it shall be lawful for such person to locate or place
their net or haul seine in front of said property; except
that the notice to the owner or occupier shall not apply
to the waters of Baltimore, Talbot. Caroline, Dorches-
ter, Prince George's, St. Mary's and Charles Counties,
where the permission of the shore owner shall always be
necessary, nor shall anything herein contained be construed
to grant any rights to fishermen by reason of such notice
to fish upon any of the waters, nearer than 500 yards oppo-
site any shore used as a pleasure resort so as to interfere with
bathing or boating on such shore, without permission of the
shore owner. The notice provided for above shall be mailed
to the owner of the shore, or to the tenant, renter or lessee
of such shore property. If the name and address are un-
known, then such notice shall be posted for twenty days on
a board fastened to a stake driven in the water directly in
front of the property and at a distance not greater than
100 yards from shore. Nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to permit any riparian owner or any one acquiring
the rights of a riparian owner to fish with nets or seine in
any manner or at any time prohibited in this Article. Pro-
vided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to
Anne Arundel, Calvert, Queen Anne's, Kent and Somerset
Counties.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1. 1947.

Approved April 25, 1947.

CHAPTER 827.
(House Bill 717)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
394, sub-title "County Engineer", of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Prince George's County, Maryland (Flack's
Edition, 1943), as amended by Chapter 933, Laws of Mary-
land, 1945, the purpose of the amendment being to redefine
and expand the duties of the County Engineer and to